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同情

tóng qíng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

同情 (tóng qíng) means "to sympathize with". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 同情 means

1. to sympathize with
2. sympathy

The characters in 同情

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition

Example sentences

• 我同情你。
  I feel for you.
• 傻子才同情。
  Sympathy is for chumps.
• 我不同情汤姆。
  I feel no sympathy for Tom.
• 汤姆说他同情玛丽。
  Tāngmǔ shuō tā tóngqíng Mǎlì.
  Tom said that he felt sorry for Mary.
• Kate很同情他。
  Kate sympathized with him.
• 我不需要你的同情。
  I don't need your sympathy.

Words starting with 同情

• 同情者tóng qíng zhěsupporter; sympathizer (esp. of political cause); fellow traveler

Words containing 同情

• 一掬同情之泪yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèito shed tears of sympathy (idiom)

Where 同情 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Negative emotions & reactions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tóng qíng correctly.
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